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Pol Pot's Paper Trail

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Barry Wain

Updated May 9, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

PHNOM PENH--Youk Chhang displays an organization chart of the utmost simplicity. On top, like the chairman of the board, sits Pol Pot. On the rung below, executive directors in a corporate structure, are Nuon Chea, Son Sen and Yun Yat.

All are key leaders of the Khmer Rouge, whose regime presided over an estimated 1.7 million deaths, about 20% of the population, when it ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. Mr. Youk's research shows that the trio constituted a national security committee. They not only directed the infamous...